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Connected History - Essays and Arguments (Paperback)
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Connected History - Essays and Arguments (Paperback)
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Sanjay Subrahmanyam is becoming well known for the same sort of
reasons that attach to Fernand Braudel and Carlo Ginzburg, as the
proponent of a new kind of history - in his case, not longue duree
or micro-history, but 'connected history': connected
cross-culturally, and spanning regions, subjects and archives that
are conventionally treated alone. Not a research paradigm, he
insists, it is more of an oppositionswissenschaft, a way of trying
to constantly break the moulds of historical objects. The essays
collected here, some quite polemical - as in the lead text on the
notion of India-as-civilization, or another, assessing such a
literary totem as V. S. Naipaul - illustrate the breadth of
Subrahmanyam's concerns, as well as the quality of his writing.
Connected History considers what, exactly, is an empire, the rise
of 'the West' (less of a place than an idea or ideology, he
insists), Churchill and the Great Man theory of history, the
reception of world literature and the itinerary of subaltern
studies, in addition to personal recollections of life and work in
Delhi, Paris and Lisbon, and concluding remarks on the practice of
early-modern history and the framing of historical enquiry.
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